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To: JCBreckenridge

This isn’t an issue of what you feel.

Its an issue of state rights and the overstepping of federal power.

The federal government is out of control and expanding into every area of our lives. Yet because you feel something is bad and should be banned you’ll encourage the federal government to abuse its powers not granted to it by our constitution. You and a few million others all want to control something so in turn you eventually as a whole grant the federal government total rule over our lives. One law at a time...

And then you wonder what happened to your freedom...

And last but not least. How can you truly have freedom, if you aren’t allowed to make what the majority thinks is the “wrong” choice from time to time. If God didn’t believe in freedom we wouldn’t have been given free will. We would instead have been robots fulfilling our sinless programming all in perfect harmony - and all completely meaningless. Free will comes with a heavy price - but its better than the alternative.


33 posted on 09/11/2012 1:25:52 AM PDT by DB
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To: DB

Freedom isn’t free. Someone is bearing the costs. Right now, it’s the folks having to put up with property crimes, and the doctors and nurses treating those suffering from various forms of chemical addiction.

I suspect that if society were to really let addicts crash and suffer the consequences then we’d have fewer of them. If you knew there wasn’t going to be someone there to bail you out and save you, would you really be using?

If society is going to help those suffering from addiction at no cost to themselves, then yes, it’s appropriate for society to regulate the distribution of said substances.


77 posted on 09/11/2012 8:32:57 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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